All posts tagged "CDC"

ATLANTA (AP) — Federal health officials say the mosquitoes that can transmit the Zika virus may live in a broader swath of the U.S. than previously thought — but that doesn’t mean they’ll cause disease here. The...

NEW YORK (AP) — Zika infections have been confirmed in nine pregnant women in the United States, including one who gave birth to a baby with a rare birth defect, health officials said Friday. The Centers for...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials are investigating more than a dozen possible Zika infections that may have been spread through sex. The 14 cases all involve men who visited areas with Zika outbreaks, and who...

NEW YORK (AP) — An outbreak of E. coli linked to Chipotle that originated in the Pacific Northwest has spread south and east and has now infected people in six states. New cases have been reported in...

The rate of adults who smoke cigarettes in the United States has dropped to 16.8 percent, the lowest in recorded history. According to a report by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention Sunday, numbers from last...

WASHINGTON, June 8 (Yonhap) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have issued a travel advisory about the outbreak of the Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome (MERS) in South Korea. The notice, posted on the CDC...

Source: Flight en route to Liberia to evacuate Americans infected with Ebola – The fear began just after news broke Thursday that a long-range business jet with an isolation pod left the United States for Liberia, where...